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It's easy to vent on social media, but not thinking about the post, can bring serious consequences.
Comments can have different meanings to different people, media experts say.
That seemed to be the case this week with Kyla Bangayan.
Los Angeles Police Department officers arrested the 24-year-old Cal Poly Pomona student at his parent's Hollywood home Sunday on suspicion of making violent threats to schools on Facebook. However, on Monday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office determined it would not file charges against him.
Prosecutors reviewed the case and decided not to file charges because "there is no reference to threatening action toward any specific victim or school, which is required in the elements" of the penal code section under which Bengayan was arrested, according to the District Attorney's Office charge evaluation worksheet.
Police officers learned about Bangayan after someone saw his comments on Facebook, said Jeana Franco, detective with the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Division.
The person notified police officers and showed them the comments on Bangayan's Facebook page, Franco said.
Investigators took the case Sunday.
"We had enough to arrest him and felt it was important to arrest him at that time," Franco said.
Police officers took the comments seriously.
"We thought that was credible," Franco said.
At Bangayan's parent's home, police officers found nine firearms, according to the Police Department.
Bangayan posted three Facebook comments shortly after Friday's Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut, the worksheet said. In that case, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 26 people at the school, including 20 children.
Bangayan wrote that if people didn't stop posting about the shootings on Facebook he would do the same, according to the worksheet.
In addition, he said that many children die in Third World countries every day.
Bangayan told police investigators that he posted the comments as a joke and got some laughs from his friends, according to the worksheet.
"Regardless of what happened in Connecticut, he would have been taken into custody," Franco said.
Franco said she thinks "the shock value" of what Bangayan posted increased because of the Connecticut shootings.
As a result of the arrest, Bangayan is "going to be more careful. We're aware of him," Franco said.
Stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, people should be "more mindful of social media and be more responsible," she said.
Although Bangayan is out of police custody, Franco said "he's on a mental hold" and is being evaluated at a Los Angeles area hospital. The psychological evaluation is a precaution.
"We're just trying to ensure public safety," she said.
Michael Epstein, a professor and media law scholar at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, said comments made via social media are like spoken comments
"Whatever you post, you are making an utterance," Epstein said. "What you post can come back to bite you in a way."
The fact something is said on Facebook has less to do than what is said, Epstein said.
Someone can post something on Facebook or some other form of social media and be read by friends.
"Maybe they know the poster has a dark sense of humor, or is a curmudgeon ... or is provocative," Epstein said.
Those familiar with the person posting the comments may take the author of the post to task, but the comments can lose context online particularly when read by people unfamiliar with the author.
The same comment can be changed around or picked up and used in a different context that changes the meaning, Epstein said.
So a post can be read by someone else - including members of law enforcement - and the post will have a different meaning, he said.
"Facebook is not for the impulsive," Epstein said.
"People think of Facebook as an intimate medium but it's anything but," he said. "It's a public soapbox."
Legal experts said the comments that Bangayan made caught law enforcement's attention but weren't specific enough to charge him.
Bangayan's comments were vague, part of a comment about what was being discussed via social media and was protected speech under the First Amendment, said Jonathan Kotler, a media lawyer and associate professor of journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
The comments didn't reach the level of a criminal threat, Kotler said.
However, had the comments been specific, involved a particular school, and provided details about who the victims would be, it would change things, Kotler said.
"Then you have a real threat," he said.
Bangayan has attracted law enforcements attention.
"Is he going to be watched henceforth? Yes, he is," Kotler said.
Fifteen years ago, such comments probably would have been made when someone vented during a card game with friends or at a bar over a drink and would not have amounted to much, Kotler said.
Now the comments are made on social media.
"Last week's event really shook everyone, as it should," Kotler said.
Under such circumstances, law enforcement agencies are going to be cautious.
"I can't really fault the police," he said. "They're being conservative."
Kotler said he thinks the students should not have been arrested, "but given what happened in Connecticut, it's understandable."
Epstein suggests that people always using caution when using email or social media.
"People who you don't know will be reading this comment," he said.


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The Movie:For reasons that I'm sure no one else on Earth will ever understand, after the blockbuster success of Brian DePalma's Mission: Impossible in 1996, Tom Cruise hired Hong Kong action maestro John Woo to direct the sequel in 2000. Mission: Impossible II (or M:I-2 as the posters dubbed it) didn't even bother pretending it was in any way connected to the previous movie (much less the old TV series), instead changing the Hunt character from an untested secret agent into an invincible superhero trapped in an indulgent action melodrama. If you were to strip away the franchise name and change the characters around a little bit, I honestly think the production would be more highly regarded as one of Woo's better American films, but in terms of being a Mission: Impossible movie, bluntly speaking it stinks.
The sequel opens with a group of terrorists hijacking a commercial jetliner and deliberately crashing it, later attempting to release a deadly biological agent on a major metropolitan area. In the summer of 2000, events like that must have sounded like ridiculously far-fetched Hollywood fantasy. It doesn't play quite the same way anymore, unfortunately. In any case, the villain of the piece is a rogue IMF agent (Dougray Scott) who harbors a grudge against former teammate Hunt and is now trying to get rich through a ploy involving an evil pharmaceutical company. As if we didn't already have enough reasons to be paranoid about corporate malfeasance, the firm has developed a supervirus for the sole purpose of selling its exclusive vaccine and watching its stock price soar. Once the terrorists get their hands on the bug, of course only our man Hunt can save the day with high-flying kung-fu acrobatics, guns loaded with unlimited ammo, and lots of stuff that goes boom.
Like I said, if you have any appreciation for John Woo's flamboyant theatrics, M:I-2 actually has its pleasures so long as you can divorce it from the Impossible franchise. It's one of the director's few American films to approach the operatic delirium of his Hong Kong pictures, complete with all the poetic slo-mo action and deliberate suspension of disbelief that are hallmarks of his style. By the time Ethan has to break into the heavily-guarded laboratory and then blast his way out again after facing off against hordes of armed enemies in a beautifully-staged ballet of bullets, explosions, and soaring emotions, you're reminded that John Woo simply makes this type of shit better than anybody else. The later motorcycle-a-motorcycle jousting duel between Hunt and his nemesis is entirely ridiculous, stupid really if you put any thought into it, but is perfectly in keeping with the heightened macho posturing that infuses all of Woo's films. Unfortunately, such fantasy excess just feels out of place under the Mission: Impossible banner. With a different title, Chow Yun-Fat in the lead, and Cantonese-language dialogue, this would probably seem a better movie.
The Blu-ray:Mission: Impossible II previously debuted on the Blu-ray format as part of Paramount Home Entertainment's Ultimate Missions Collection box set. The studio has just now gotten around to releasing it separately. A comparable HD DVD edition is also available.
The disc automatically opens with a lengthy Blu-ray promo that can fortunately be skipped but is a nuisance.
Blu-ray discs are only playable in a compatible Blu-ray player. They will not function in a standard DVD player or in an HD DVD player. Please note that the star rating scales for video and audio are relative to other High Definition disc content, not to traditional DVD.
Video:The Mission: Impossible II Blu-ray is encoded on disc in High Definition 1080p format using MPEG2 compression on a single-layer 25gb disc. Despite the difference in compression codec, the video quality looks essentially identical to the HD DVD release. The movie is presented in its theatrical aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 with letterbox bars at the top and bottom of the 16:9 frame.
Ironically, M:I-2 has the oldest transfer of the three Impossible films, recycled from the master originally used for the DVD released back in 2000. The movie looks by far the worst of the three. The picture is very noisy in a great number of scenes, and it certainly isn't all film grain. Cruise's introductory rock climbing sequence opens with a sweeping aerial shot buzzing with noise. Edge enhancement problems also infect the image throughout the movie. Colors and flesh tones look oversaturated, and dark scenes have poor shadow detail. To my eye, the framing seems overly tight on all four sides of the screen, though that may just be John Woo's discomfort with the 2.35:1 format. On the plus side, the picture is quite sharp and usually detailed, especially in close-ups (fine object details in wide shots often have a dupey texture from the artificial sharpening). It's not terrible, but in comparison to the other two excellent transfers, M:I-2 is just mediocre.
The M:I-2 Blu-ray is not flagged with an Image Constraint Token and will play in full High Definition quality over a Blu-ray player's analog Component Video outputs.
Audio:The movie's soundtrack is provided in Dolby Digital 5.1 format. In comparison to its predecessor, M:I-2 has a standard action movie mix. It's very bassy, with extremely loud music and effects, as well as aggressive directionality in the action scenes. It's quite solid work for what it's meant to be, just not particularly clever or inventive like the first film. Fidelity also seems a little dull, but if you crank it up loud enough it gets the job done just fine.
Subs & Dubs:Optional subtitles - English, English captions for the hearing impaired, French, or Spanish.Alternate language tracks - French or Spanish DD+ 5.1.
Extras:The bonus features on this Blu-ray title are duplicated from the DVD edition. Most of the supplements from the DVD have carried over.
Final Thoughts:If you weren't a big enough fan of the franchise to splurge for the Ultimate Missions Collection box, Mission: Impossible II is finally available for separate purchase. Of course, most people who resisted the box set were probably trying to specifically avoid this movie. Unfortunately, M:I-2 is the weakest entry in the series, both as a movie and in terms of High Definition picture and sound quality. Still, it has some merits and provides some good, dopey fun. I'll give it a mild recommendation.
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Political Prisoner Birthday Poster For September 2015 Is Now Available
Hello Friends and Comrades,
1) Here is the political prisoner birthday poster for September. As always, please post this poster publicly and/or use it to start a card writing night of your own.
2) We've put the text online of our new zine How To Start A Prison Books Collective. We hope that this humble contribution will help other prison books groups get started and expand the important work of sending political, legal, and self-educational resources to prisoners. You can find the text here.
3) The Prison Ecology Project has extended its online fundraiser. They are creating tools to dismantle toxic prisons. So far, they are the only group focused on the intersection of environment and mass incarceration. Currently they are building a database of the five thousand prisons and jails around the country, finding the weak points in the environmental realm, and providing tools to organize locally. You can donate here.


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CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Businesses and individuals had better brace themselves for new security realities as society moves away from traditional data sharing equations that have worked well for a couple of decades.
To date, users have agreed to give away certain discrete pieces of information -- such as a name or email addresses -- in exchange for something -- a product or a service, for instance.
That situation is no longer viable, Craig Mundie, senior advisor to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, told told attendees at the Emtech conference held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) here today.
Mundie said that today, significant amounts of data are collected, much of it without the user's knowledge, and is used in ways not always clear at the time of collection.
For instance, a mobile phone app may ask for permission to use your location data, but it isn't always apparent or disclosed how that data will be used downstream. Your answer to such a request may depend on whether the data will be posted to Facebook or used to guide you via GPS to a meeting. So a straight yes or no answer may not be enough, and you need to be able to control this, Mundie said.
"We're talking about the legal acquisition of data," Mundie said. "We need a usage-based way of controlling it, with a cryptographic wrapper and then policies and laws that govern usage."
He called for a new class of felony for people or organizations that subvert these policies. Without such a change, "the penalty is too low" and people will continue to subvert the laws.
Also, Mundie said, a cryptographic wrapper will be needed for each classification of personal data that is collected that states the rules about where and how it can be shared. Sometimes the individual will control access to the data. In other cases, society may mandate, for example, that some types of health, security or other types of remain available, even anonymized, for the greater good. "This is going to go both ways."
The wrappers would be akin to the digital rights management systems that now protect movie or music ownership, where people or companies hold keys that allow appropriate use of the information.
Such rules won't be static, he said.
"You need to be able to change your mind as an individual and as a society. You can't write the rules in advance, you have to wait until the app emerges and gets to scale, that you can figure out you don't like it," Mundie said.
On a corporate level, the stakes are rising as well, he said.
In the past 12 months there's been a shift away from Mundie called "nuisance" attacks toward "we don't like you and we're going to take you down."
Companies need to decide what assets are of critical value, where their loss would be of such a nature that the company could go out of business. Mundie termed it "life or death. It's a survivability question of what happens if you lose certain things." Today's traditional IT security methods are no longer "adequate," he said.
One Mundie suggestion: Partition the essential information "so it doesn't exist in any one place at the same time."
Unfortunately, Mundie was not available to elaborate.
He left immediately after his presentation to go to New York to receive the Dwight D. Eisenhower award, which honors individuals -- both in public and private life -- who make significant contributions to national security. Past recipients include President Jimmy Carter, Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Condoleeza Rice, and former IBM chairman Thomas Watson, Jr.
Other speakers at the conference today talked about the notion of smart cities, and how that idea could evolve.
Katharine Frase, chief technology officer of IBM's public sector practice, said that the city of Rio de Janeiro has implemented a system designed to predict and proactively plan for the rain storms that can create mud slides and, sometimes, cause human death. There is a 'command center' that brings representatives of all city departments together, but there are also analytics run 36 hours before an impending storm.
The data can predict within "a few centimeters" of accuracy which roads will be flooded so, for instance, ambulances and other emergency responders can be rerouted to safer areas.
She also cited a Dubuque, Iowa, program that engaged citizens to help manage energy and water consumption. The idea was to help the city plan, and to help save money on both the household and city levels.
Some 150 households were in a trial program and reported "tremendous efficiency," Frase said, not only in saving money and resources but also doing things like reporting leaks for the city to fix. Points and other gamification techniques were used to help encourage people to stay involved, she said.
"All cities have more data than they think," Frase said, "but it's often locked into one agency. So if they share, they can make better decisions."
Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT lab that explores how sensors and devices can be used in cities, talked about an experiment that tracked 3,000 pieces of trash that originated in Seattle, Wash. Within two months, much of it - including e-waste - wound up on as far away as the East Coast and Baja, Calif.
"If you move things around more efficiently, you can save money and affect behavioral change," he said.
There's a more practical use of the technology as well.
Ratti recalled a burglary at the MIT campus, the included the theft of the tags that could track where the burglers went. Amid laughter from the audience, Ratti told of how images these devices sent back were photos of the suspect, including one where he wore a T-shirt with the address of his business. "The MIT police took care of the rest," he said.
There are, of course, privacy issues, he acknowledged, that have prompted some countries to begin banning Google Streetview.
Laura Schewel, cofounder of Streetlight Data, which helps collect anonymized location data for businesses and governments, said there is a difference in public reaction when data is collected for a business versus when it is looked at by government agencies, as evidenced by the Snowden affair.
At the end of the day, all the panelists agreed that it's essential for governments and citizens to have a dialogue about the types of information that are needed, and collected, and what happens with that information. "Cities can talk back to us," Ratti said.
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Unfortunately, there is nothing yet for the flu.
There are things that will lead to discoveries, other research, other discoveries in the medical field, and that is important.
An aside. I had the opportunity to accompany, together with the Minister of National Revenue, who is also responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions in Quebec, a group of Quebec businesses that recently took part in a trade fair called Salon Medica, where the greatest discoveries in the field of medicine were displayed. These were medical equipment manufacturers.
We saw extraordinary things. It is not clear how we will be able to provide all these services, because the technologies are obviously extremely expensive. They will have to be made more affordable. The more they are used, the more marketing will bring the prices down.
It is incredible to see what is available to provide support for or treat various diseases, increasingly advanced discoveries, and increasingly sophisticated rehabilitation equipment. What is clear is that humans are moved by a desire to push ever further back the inevitable appointment with death or disease, and to attenuate their effect.
We are all in favour, but there are operational efficiency constraints facing the government in its efforts to make sure the public gets the best medical service possible. Obviously, this is a problem for several areas in Canada, and it involves health as well. In the case that concerns us in Quebec, there are two levels of government involved in the delivery of health care, in addition to various institutions, regional boards and hospitals.
The Government of Quebec, whose jurisdiction it is, must run this system and come up with the money to pay the entire workforce involved, as well as operating costs. In the meantime, the federal government agrees that this is a provincial jurisdiction, but is stepping up its interference.
It has always been present in research but, with its various foundations, is becoming more so. I could name the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and a host of other foundations, financial tools created by the federal government that encroach on the health care system in various areas, which is easier for the federal government because it does not have to shoulder all the recurrent costs, all the more complex side of the health system, or negotiate labour agreements and whatnot.
But it interferes wherever it can come out looking good, looking like it is really concerned, such as in health care. The big problem is that, when we arrived here, in 1993-1994, this same government made real, not virtual, transfer payments of almost $17 billion in hard cash under three provincial transfer payment programs—in health, education and social assistance. Now, those payments are closer to of $12 billion. There have been various cuts, which annually amount to about $6 billion in direct funding that the provinces used for health care delivery.
By reducing this funding, which is used to pay for the system, where costs are not going down, the federal government is putting tremendous pressure on the health care system in view of all the new discoveries, the new medical solutions, the level of care required, an informed population demanding more and more services, the increased availability and high cost of drugs, and all the rest.
Provincial governments have seen their budget reduced drastically due to cuts in transfer payments, and smaller contributions from the federal government while it is increasingly interfering with important initiatives in areas such as research where it can get more visibility without being involved in the mechanics, while providing less support to the funding of the whole system than it did in the past.
This is quite deplorable. How can provincial governments successfully plan and orchestrate health care services when they have no control over the level of financing coming from the federal government? The cuts that are being made or were made were unilateral. One fine morning the federal government said "I am withdrawing from this area".
Yet it is introducing initiatives, saying as usual it is going to co-operate with the provinces. However, when we see how little it recognizes the role of the provinces in this bill, which puts them on the same footing as all the other players, we know it does not want to recognize the crucial role provincial governments must play, namely to properly plan for the management and organization of health care services.
The level of federal funding is beyond the control of the provinces and nowadays, with the budget surpluses which are accumulating in Ottawa and which are not virtual, but quite real—the federal government mentioned something in the order of $90 billion over the next five years—there is a very strong desire to interfere more and more in numerous areas.
It is difficult to have plan properly in our health system, when the left hand does not know what the right hand is going to do. There is an obvious lack of co-operation here.
The federal government wants to play an ever larger role and it has no intention of increasing transfers to the provinces to provide them with some relief, to help them absorb regular costs and have the required flexibility in their own budgets to fund necessary initiatives in research and so on.
The federal government wants to take full control over this area and the best way to do so was to reduce funding for the provinces so much that they now barely have the means to pay the regular operational costs of the health system.
I am convinced that this was well planned and thought out by the federal government and that it is no coincidence. Considering that the government now has annual surpluses in excess of $10 billion to $15 billion, why is it unable to reinvest the $4 billion to $5 billion that were once used in transfer payments to directly fund services to citizens?
It is all fine and well to do medical research, but we must also ensure that the public has access to existing basic traditional services. Health professionals are very good, but the problem often has to do with access, with the time required before we can see certain specialists.
So, it is definitely not by just funding initiatives relating to research, development or government visibility that we will achieve the necessary balance to have a good health system.
The bill includes many interesting things, but we will have to make some important cautionary remarks when it is debated in committee. We agree with the bill's principle to allocate more money for research, but we are very concerned about how the government is defining its role in relation to that of the provinces as regards the management and delivery of services to the public.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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"Baldy" Harper was one of the great defenders of liberty during the mid-20th cnetury. He wrote prolifically and founded the Institute for Humane Studies in 1961 in Menlo Park, California.


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Only question I raise about this word is how can we become a feeder club when they dont already have any other clubs?Callumcafc said:
Unfortunate use of the word "feeder"... Hm.
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"Australian Football Consortium Ltd (AFC) are currently attempting to raise the capital necessary to buy out the Belgian..."Valley27000 said:
What they worth?.
God help them with our teamkidbrookeaddick said:
I believe it would be feeder as in the aussies come to us to develop with us
Idiots is a tad harsh at this stage.ForeverAddickted said:
On a plus note I bet the idiots think that if they buy the club they'll be immune from protests on their doorstep because they're so far away.
Ready to step up to the plate @OzAddick and become the Aussie One if need be?


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In 1930, the Waldorf Astoria in New York City sent a guy up from the kitchen with a plate of food so the guest could eat in his room... and room service was born.
Hotels have introduced all kinds of changes since, including those little bottles of shampoo (Four Seasons) and the mini-bar (The Hilton).
One recent development: the corporate-owned boutique hotel – elegant, yet charming, but with the advantage of being part of a huge company. Nobody does that better than Kimpton, the largest operator of boutique hotels in America.
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Mike Depatie is the CEO of Kimpton Hotels, and he's been in the hotel business a longtime. He essentially invented Residence Inn. He is now in charge of 7,600 Kimpton employees. His company is rated as one of the best places to work in the United States.
Depati was joined by Quentin Hardy of The New York Times and Michal Lev-Ram of Fortune for a roundtable discussion on the changing hotel industry.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) Cornerback Johnathan Joseph is active for the Houston Texans after missing two games with a hamstring injury.
The Texans were without another starter, linebacker Brooks Reed, who missed his second straight game with a groin injury Monday night against the New England Patriots.
Tight end Rob Gronkowski was inactive for the third game for the Patriots with a broken left forearm. But running back Brandon Bolden returned after a four-game suspension for violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances.
Also inactive for New England were offensive linemen Nick McDonald and Marcus Zusevics, defensive linemen Ron Brace and Jake Bequette, safety Derrick Martin and running back James Develin. Houston's inactive players included backup tight end Garrett Graham, cornerback Alan Ball, guards Antoine Caldwell and Cody White, tackle Derek Newton and nose tackle Terrell McClain.


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Janet Jenkins with her daughter Isabella in January 2009. It was the last time Jenkins saw her. The girl's other mother, Lisa Miller, was indicted on international kidnapping charges in 2010.
The trial of an Amish-Mennonite minister accused of helping an American woman spirit the child she had with her former same-sex partner out of the country just before she lost custody is getting under way this week.
Kenneth L. Miller, 46, of Stuarts Draft, Va., is charged with aiding and abetting Lisa Miller in taking her child, Isabella, to Nicaragua with the intent to obstruct the parental rights of her former civil union partner, Janet Jenkins, according to the court indictment. He is not related to Lisa Miller and could face a three-year sentence if convicted.
Federal agents haven't been able to locate Isabella or Lisa Miller, who was indicted on international kidnapping charges in 2010. Miller gave birth to Isabella, who is now 10, through in vitro fertilization when the couple was still together in 2002. She later denounced homosexuality and took up conservative Christian ideals, Reuters reported.
"I think she's in the equivalent of the underground railroad with the religious people ... who see the gay rights agenda overwhelming their religious rights," Gary Buseck, legal director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which helped Jenkins in her legal effort for visitation rights, told Reuters.
The case has drawn attention in part because it involves an international custody dispute, but also because it touches upon two major issues in the public square: gay rights and religion. A jury was selected Tuesday in Burlington, Vt., and opening arguments are scheduled for Wednesday.
Kenneth Miller's lawyer, Joshua Autry, told Reuters that his client didn't plan to obstruct Jenkins' visitation rights.
"Unfortunately for Kenneth Miller the government has decided to drag him hundreds of miles from his home to a distant venue to prosecute him in violation of his constitutional rights," he said. "We believe that after all of the evidence comes forth the jury will acquit him."
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Lisa Miller answers questions about her custody battle during a news conference in Richmond, Va., on April 17, 2008.
Kenneth Miller allegedly helped arrange the pair's exit from their home in Lynchburg, Va., to Canada, where they crossed the border from New York on Sept. 22, 2009. He then facilitated the purchase of plane tickets to Nicaragua and set up contacts for them in the Central American country, according to an affidavit filed by Deputy U.S. Marshal Max Galusha.
Lisa Miller wed her former partner, Janet Jenkins, in a civil union in Vermont, but their relationship broke down in 2003. In the fall of that year, Miller moved to Virginia with Isabella. In November, she filed to dissolve their civil union, Galusha said. Reports said their union was dissolved in 2004.
The next years were filled with back-and-forth court hearings over child visitation. The court granted rights to parent-child contact to Jenkins in June 2004, but by the fall of 2009, Miller had not allowed court-ordered visits for Jenkins for much of the year.
The court determined in November 2009 that Jenkins would have sole physical and legal custody of Isabella starting on Jan. 2010, ruling that Miller had willfully interfered with her visitation rights. But Miller had already fled her home in Lynchburg, Va., with her daughter in tow.
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Kenneth Miller is the leader of a Beachy Amish Mennonite church in Stuarts Draft, The New York Times reported. The sect believes that same-sex marriage is a sin and its members said the mother and daughter were sheltered by their missionaries in Nicaragua, the newspaper reported.
There are about 13,000 members of the Beachy Amish Mennonite sect worldwide, Cory Anderson, a member and doctoral student in sociology at Ohio State University, told The Times.
Lisa Miller had filed her lawsuit seeking an order of parentage (to declare that she was the only one with parental rights to Isabella) in Virginia on the day that state's statute banning same-sex marriage went into effect in 2004, said Greg Nevins, a Lambda Legal attorney who worked on the case from that year to 2010. He noted it was important to establish such attempts at an "end-run" -- by changing jurisdictions in order to get a desired outcome -- would not be acceptable.
The case was thus important, not because it broke new ground or put same-sex parents in a different category, but "because it basically acknowledges that they should be treated ... the same as other people parenting children," Nevins said.
Sarah Star, Jenkins' lawyer in Vermont, said she hoped the trial of Kenneth Miller would send a message to those continuing to "aid and abet" the abduction and ongoing crime, though she didn't think her client was going to get closure from the proceedings.
"People need to be held accountable for breaking the law, but she's interested in what's going to bring Isabella home," she told NBC News. "The bottom line is … that Isabella is still missing."
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Reports of child abuse and neglect have dropped nationwide for the fifth consecutive year, and abuse-related child fatalities also are at a five-year low, according to new federal statistics.
The latest annual report from the Department of Health and Human Services, released Wednesday, estimates that there were 681,000 cases of child abuse or neglect across the nation in the 2011 fiscal year. That's down from 695,000 in 2010 and from 723,000 in 2007.
"We have made excellent progress over the past five years," said George Sheldon, HHS acting assistant secretary for children and families. "But what this report tells me is that we still have 681,000 children out there who need our help."
The number of abuse-related fatalities was estimated at 1,570 — down from 1,580 in 2010 and from 1,720 in 2007. About fourfifths of those killed were younger than 4, and parents were deemed responsible for nearly four-fifths of the deaths.
Texas had the most fatalities, with 246, followed by Florida with 133, while Montana reported no abuse-related deaths. The highest rates of child fatalities were in Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia.
Regarding the overall maltreatment figures, white children accounted for almost 44 per cent of the victims, black children for 21.5 per cent and Hispanic children for 22.1 per cent. About 11 per cent of the victims were physically or mentally disabled.
Regarding types of maltreatment, 78.5 per cent of the victims suffered neglect, nearly 18 per cent were physically abused and 9.1 per cent were sexually abused. The report tallied 61,472 children who were sexually abused in 2011 — down dramatically from the peak of about 150,000 in 1992.
The report, formally known as the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, is based on input from child protection agencies in every state. About four-fifths of the reports received by the agencies do not lead to findings of maltreatment, according to the report.
Sociologist David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center, says he finds the annual reports frustrating because of the lack of analysis of the trends.
"But at the same time, it does appear remarkable that overall child maltreatment has declined given that unemployment has been so high, the housing and mortgage crisis has continued, and state and local budgets for family and child services have been cut," he wrote in an email.
Richard Gelles, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice and an expert on child welfare, noted that the decline in child maltreatment meshed with declines in the overall violent crime rate, the homicide rate and the level of violence against women.
Gelles said some child-protection advocates contend the declining child-abuse rates are a mirage, reflecting a tendency by child welfare agencies to investigate fewer cases in this era of tight budgets. But he contended that the decline is real — due in part to more adults delaying marriage and child-bearing, and thus reducing the number of high-risk situations where young, financially struggling adults are raising children that they can barely support.
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Otherwise, we wouldn't be nearly so productive.)
But this one was a little different. My 10-year-old has had a fabulous teacher this year, Mrs Merryweather. Just perfect for my daughter. And Mrs. M is having a baby this month, so we HAD to make her a quilt.
And we had to use American Jane because it's so cute and school-teacher-ish.
And this time, my daughter really wanted to be the one who pieced it, so she did! I was really proud of her. We stuck to really simple strips and I kind of just let her go at it. Hindsight, I probably should have given a little more supervision because we had a serious parallelogram when she was done, but we did some trimming, put on some borders that helped square things up and then Sherrie the quilter did some serious magic to pull it all together.
The baby shower was last Friday afternoon at the end of the school day so we hurried to get it done in time. I bound the quilt during Womens Conference on Thursday and sewed on the label (the one my daughter really wanted sewn on) a half hour before the shower. And the quilt was a hit. The kids were so funny and cute at the shower and Mrs. Merryweather really loved her quilt!
But in all the fun I completely forgot to take a picture of my daughter with the quilt! Aargh! Her first quilt, and she is not documented with it. I think her teacher got a picture, so we'll have to try and get a copy.
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Randy Barnett is a professor at Georgetown Law Center, and filed an amicus brief in favor of the petitioner in McDonald v. Chicago.
Today, the Privileges or Immunities Clause has risen from the grave. Only a plurality was willing to use the Due Process Clause to apply an individual right to the states. The crucial fifth vote was provided by Justice Thomas' extensive fifty-six-page originalist opinion that rested solely on the Privileges or Immunities Clause. Neither Justice Alito for the plurality, nor Justices Stevens or Breyer in dissent, even attempted to impeach Justice Thomas' analysis, which now stands uncontradicted in the Supreme Court Reports. Decades of academic research that has lead to a remarkable consensus among constitutional scholars that The Slaughter-House Cases was wrongly decided have now been vindicated. Only a remarkably tepid and barely defended assertion of stare decisis by Justice Alito now stands in the way of a complete restoration of the "lost" Privileges or Immunities Clause at the heart of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment. Not that this will happen overnight. It took twenty-five years for Justice Powell's lone 1978 opinion in Bakke — in which he accepted "diversity" as a rationale for affirmative action in schools — to be adopted by a majority of the Court in Grutter. But adopted it eventually was.


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We're a "Santa" family. I understand the reasons behind some families choice to keep Santa out of their Christmas celebrations, but for us, it's important to include him.
There is beauty in the "magic" of Santa. In the innocence in the heart of a child that can believe a man can make it around the world in just one night, solely to bless the lives of children everywhere. The story is appreciated and loved because of its wonder, sans the syndical and bitter questioning that sneaks its way into our hearts with age.
We use the Santa story to teach our children about the unconditional love that can be found in a gift that is given out of love, not earned like a sticker on a responsibility chart. Once a year, for just a few years, they will wake with the type of anticipation that only lives within a child. They'll know that awaiting them under the Christmas tree decorated with holy cards will be humble presents, right next to the manger that's present all through Advent. The gifts won't be there because they have earned them or they deserve them, just because they are loved - similar to the baby Jesus who will be placed in the manger that sits under that Christmas tree.
Accepting unconditional love and unearned reward may be difficult later in their lives depending on their temperament. The "Santa years" are great practice for them to accept that they are loved just because. They are loved by us, by each other and ultimately, by Christ. They did nothing to earn this love, can do nothing to lose the love and need only accept it – like a gift on Christmas morning.
There is no "naughty" or "nice" list and Santa works in his workshop year-round making toys for boys and girls because St. Nicholas inspired him to be loving and kind to children out of the goodness of his heart.
There is no danger of our children learning one day about Santa and drawing a parallel to Christ - thus dismissing the resurrection as a fable, myth or moral story. We talk about Santa from December 7th to December 25th every year. We talk about the baby Jesus everyday.
My biggest concern that comes along with being a "Santa family" is not a spiritual one. We've got three daughters in this home. Teaching them to sit on an old man's lap, tell him their secret desires and then take candy from him doesn't really coincide with what we generally teach our daughters about strange, odd looking older men! Then, on Christmas Eve, we'll celebrate Jesus' birthday and while we are sleeping he'll sneak into our home and we'll leave him a snack?
It is rather amusing when you think about the details.
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The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is a private non-profit developer, owner, and manager of affordable housing. The Maintenance Technician will be primarily responsible for conducting routine, preventative, and emergency repairs on all of LIHI's properties – 57 units in Bremerton and 51 units in Pt. Orchard. LIHI staff need to uphold a standard of work excellence, efficiency, cost consciousness, and teamwork.
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In an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and reliance on fossil
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At a glance, East London's newest high-rise apartment complex looks like your typical multifamily residential tower. All 29 units in the nine-story, mixed-use development come standard with hardwood floors, granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, and exterior balconies. Bright-white plasterboard finishes provide a blank canvas for residents, while large, operable windows let in fresh air and offer views of the surrounding Hackney borough.
But behind the high-end finishes is an all-wood structure that is as unconventional as construction gets these days. When it was completed this past January, the 30-meter Stadthaus tower stood as the world's tallest residential structure constructed entirely in timber and one of the tallest all-wood buildings on the planet.
Why use wood when concrete and steel are proven, economical solutions for high-rise construction?
The tower's structural system consists of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels pieced together to form load-bearing walls and floors. Even the
elevator and stair shafts are constructed of prefabricated CLT.
For design architect Andrew Waugh, the decision to go with wood was purely a sustainable one.
"We'd been looking for ways in which we could replace concrete and steel construction wherever possible in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and reliance on fossil fuels," says Waugh, director of Waugh Thistleton Architects, which teamed with structural engineer Techniker Ltd. (both based in London) to design the structure for owner/developer Telford Homes, Hertfordshire.
Waugh says that by using wood for the structure instead of concrete or steel, the team was able to construct a building that has far less embodied CO2 emissions and reliance on fossil fuel—calculations show that the building will be carbon-neutral in just 21 years. The prospect of long-term CO2 emissions savings was enough to convince the client and local code and city officials to move ahead with the unusual, all-wood design scheme.
The finished apartments look like typical multifamily residential units, with bright-white plasterboard finishes and large, operable windows. But behind the plasterboard are solid wood panels instead of traditional steel or wood studs. The wall panels are 41/2 inches thick and the floor panels are six inches thick.
Since traditional wood-frame construction is not rated for buildings taller than three or four stories, the design team had to come up with an alternative construction method for the Stadthaus project. Waugh's design team found a solution in cross-laminated timber (CLT), a process by which wood sandwich panels are formed by gluing timber strips together in a crisscross pattern to create a solid mass element with minimal movement characteristics.
"It's basically jumbo plywood," says Waugh, who says the panels can be anywhere from just under two inches thick to three feet thick, depending on the application. The result is a structurally rated unit that can be integrated with other panels to form load-bearing walls and floors for mid- and high-rise structures—without the need for concrete or steel structural members.
At Stadthaus, even the elevator and stair shafts are constructed of prefabricated CLT. The only concrete used in the building is for the foundation system and two-inch-thick floating slabs atop the timber floors for acoustical insulation.
Cross-section shows the simplicity of the structural design. The cross-laminated timber walls and floors are held together with steel angles and screws.
The design team specified 4½-inch-thick panels for the walls and six-inch-thick panels for the floors. Austria-based KLH fabricated panels and erected the final structure. All door and window openings were cut out in the factory using a CNC router. The finished panels were shipped to the job site, where they were craned into position and secured using two-inch galvanized steel angles and three-inch screws. In areas where additional reinforcement was required, screws were added to strengthen the structure. Progressive collapse is avoided by providing sufficient redundancy so that any single element can be removed without structural failure.
"The beauty behind the whole system is that it's incredibly simple," says Waugh, adding that it took the four-man KLH construction crew just 27 days to erect the nine-story structure. The construction time savings helped to compress the overall project schedule to just 46 weeks—40% shorter than if the team used traditional concrete frame construction, according to Waugh. "The guys building the structure come from the same factory where the timber panels were manufactured, so the understanding of the material is constant throughout the process."
Like most CLT manufacturers, KLH uses formaldehyde-free adhesive products, such as PUR, to form the panels, which are manufactured in 10×40-foot sheets. The panels have zero off-gassing and can be converted into biomass fuel at the end of their useful life—a process that KLH relies on to power its manufacturing facility and a nearby village.
"The material itself has an asset value throughout its life, unlike strand board, which is held together with formaldehyde- or solvent-based adhesives and must go into landfill," says Waugh. This means that the Stadthaus tower is completely recyclable and may one day be dismantled to help power London's omnibuses—or its electrical grid.


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- Audio System: Speed Sensitive Volume Control, Yes
- Audio System: Total Number of Speakers, 6
- Radio Equipment: 6 Speaker Audio System Feature
- Radio Equipment: SiriusXM Radio Delete
- Radio: Chevrolet Infotainment 3 System w/AM/FM, Includes 7" diagonal color touchscreen. Additional features for compatible phones include: Bluetooth audio streaming for 2 active devices, voice command pass-through to phone, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capable.
- Telematics: Satellite communications, OnStar and Chevrolet connected services capable
- Telematics: internet access, Mobile hotspot
- Telematics: smart device integration, Apple CarPlay/Android Auto
- Telematics: wireless phone connectivity, Bluetooth
- Video System: Primary Video Monitor Size, 7.0"
- Video System: Video Monitor Location, Front
- Air Conditioning: Air filtration, Interior air filtration
- Air Conditioning: Front air conditioning, Manual
- Comfort Features: Cargo area light, Installed
- Comfort Features: Dash trim, Metal-look
- Comfort Features: Floor mats, Carpet front and rear
- Comfort Features: Reading lights, Front and rear
- Comfort Features: Shift knob trim, Chrome
- Comfort Features: Steering wheel trim, Urethane
- Convenience Features: 12V DC power outlet, 2
- Convenience Features: Audio controls on steering wheel, Audio controls
- Convenience Features: Center Console, Full with covered storage
- Convenience Features: Cruise control, Installed
- Convenience Features: Cruise controls on steering wheel, Cruise controls
- Convenience Features: Cupholders, Front and rear
- Convenience Features: Door pockets, Driver, passenger and rear
- Convenience Features: Overhead console, Mini with storage
- Convenience Features: Power steering, Speed-proportional electric power steering
- Convenience Features: Retained accessory power, Installed
- Convenience Features: Seatback storage, 2
- Convenience Features: Steering wheel, Tilt and telescopic
- Driver Seat: Height Adjustable, Manual
- Driver Seat: Manual Adjustments, 6
- Headrests: Adjustable Front Headrests, Manual adjustable
- Headrests: Adjustable rear headrests, Manual foldable
- Headrests: Number of rear headrests, 2
- Passenger Seat: Manual Adjustments, 4
- Rear Seats: Center armrest, Yes
- Rear Seats: Folding, Fold forward seatback
- Rear Seats: Reclining, Manual
- Rear Seats: Type, Bench
- Seat Trim: Premium Cloth Seat Trim
- Seats: Front seat type, Bucket
- Seats: Total Seating Capacity, 5
- Seats: Upholstery, Premium cloth
- Seats: seating capacity, 5
- Airbags: Driver Airbag, Yes
- Airbags: Head airbags, Curtain 1st and 2nd row
- Airbags: Passenger Airbag, Yes
- Child Safety: Child safety locks, Manual
- Locks: 2-Stage unlocking, Installed
- Locks: Power door locks, Remote power door locks
- Seatbelts: Rear center seatbelt, 3-point belt
- Seatbelts: Seatbelt pretensioners, Front
- Security: Anti-theft alarm system, Yes
- Security: engine immobilizer, Installed
- Stability and Traction: Stability control, With Anti-Roll
- Stability and Traction: Traction control, ABS and driveline
- ABS Brakes: ABS, 4-wheel
- Brakes: Braking assist, Installed
- Brakes: Front brakes, Ventilated disc
- Drivetrain: Axle ratio, 3.50
- Drivetrain: Driven Wheels, Front-wheel
- Engine: 1.5L Turbo DOHC 4-Cyl SIDI VVT
- Suspension: Class, Regular
- Suspension: Front Spring Type, Coil
- Suspension: Front Stabilizer Bar, Regular
- Suspension: Front Suspension Classification, Independent
- Suspension: Front suspension type, Strut
- Suspension: Independent, Four-wheel
- Suspension: Rear Spring Type, Coil
- Suspension: Rear Stabilizer Bar, Regular
- Suspension: Rear Suspension Classification, Independent
- Suspension: Rear Suspension Type, Multi-link
- Suspension: stabilizer bar, Front and rear
- Towing and Hauling: Trailer Sway Control, Installed
- Transmission: Electronic 6-Speed Auto w/OD, Includes driver shift control.
- Doors: Rear door type, Liftgate
- Doors: left rear passenger door type, Conventional
- Doors: right rear passenger door type, Conventional
- Exterior Features: Grille, Black w/chrome surround
- Exterior Features: Rear spoiler, Lip
- Lights: Daytime running lights, Installed
- Lights: Exterior entry lights, Remote activated
- Lights: Headlights auto delay, Auto delay off
- Lights: Headlights dusk sensor, Dusk sensing
- Mirrors: Driver mirror adjustment, Power remote
- Mirrors: Passenger mirror adjustment, Power remote
- Mirrors: Vanity mirrors, Dual illuminated vanity mirrors
- Spare Tire: Mount Location, Inside under cargo
- Spare Tire: Size, Compact
- Spare Wheel: Rim type, Steel
- Tire Type: Tires: P225/65R17 All-Season Blackwall
- Tires: Diameter, 17.0"
- Tires: Prefix, P
- Tires: Profile, 65
- Tires: Speed Rating, T
- Tires: Tire Pressure Monitoring System, Tire specific
- Tires: Type, AS
- Tires: Width, 225 mm
- Wheel Type: Wheels: 17" Aluminum, (43.2 cm).
- Wheels: Diameter, 17
- Wheels: Rim Type, Silver aluminum
- Wheels: Width, 7
- Windows: Front wipers - intermittent, Variable intermittent
- Windows: One-touch windows, 4
- Windows: Power windows, Installed
- Windows: Privacy glass, Light
- Windows: Rear defogger, Installed
- Windows: Rear quarter windows, Wiper park
- Windows: Rear wiper, Fixed interval
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Mortgage Brokers for Bitterne
City Mortgage Advisor is a trading style of St Barts Finance Ltd who are an experienced mortgage broker covering Bitterne and the surrounding areas. Our goal is find you the most suitable mortgage for your personal circumstances by using our industry knowledge together with our local experience.
We will search a comprehensive range of mortgage lenders to get you the most suitable mortgage for your needs and circumstances. With access to a comprehensive range of mortgage lenders we are able to source you a mortgage that fits your needs.
When we offer you advice our primary concern is you as the client. With our high level of service, and a refreshingly honest and open approach to financial consultancy, our extensive knowledge of the market, we are committed to giving you the most suitable mortgage advice for you in as simple and as straightforward a manner as possible.
Your Mortgage Advisor Covering Bitterne
When you contact St Barts Finance ltd via citymortgageadvisor.co.uk we will review your personal circumstances in an initial meeting. After this meeting you are under no obligation to use our services although many do.
We have access to industry leading technologies to ensure that our advisors are constantly up to date with the very latest mortgages and rates available through the UK housing market, we do this to make sure that we can source the most appropriate mortgage for you quickly and efficiently. This means that we can support buyers in all sorts of different circumstances. We can offer advice for people moving house, re-mortgaging, buy to let landlords, and also first time buyers.
If you do decide to choose us as your preferred mortgage brokers covering Bitterne then we will take the time to understand your financial wants and needs in order to understand you as a client and match you with the correct deal mortgage you as an individual.
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By using us as your mortgage advisor in Bitterne you can be sure of having the peace of mind in knowing that we have individually sourced and secured thousands of offers for clients so truly understand the processes involved.
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a small feast
Husband started his holiday hours which means sleeping late into the afternoon, almost
up in time to make dinner his breakfast. Not wanting to go out, I made a small grazing
dinner for the men. We had soup, bread, Gruyere and smoked Gouda with fruits and
Italian pizzelles. I made some caramel to put between the cookies and it turned out
really good. My husband had never tried pomegranates before and liked the arils more
than I expected. For those of you who have never had Gruyere, go right now and get
some. It's our current favorite!
Both of the guys are sound asleep now and I'm wide awake, as is the usual scenario.
Don't feel bad though, I'm enjoying the quiet.
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My love for gruyere started the day I visited the village of Gruyères in Switzerland, and brought some locally produced cheese with me home... wow, I've never had anything like it!!!ReplyDelete
Mmmmmm that pom looks so yummy! Great spread you laid out...want to eat it all. Plus, the colors are so pretty and seasonal.ReplyDelete
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Gruyere is the best. I make grilled cheese with it and dip it in strawberry jam. It's so, so good!
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This is from Friday night and, yes, a 107-yard interception return means the Maryland-bound Johnny Thomas was seven yards deep in the end zone when opted to run it back rather than take a knee. Several amazing things have to happen for that to turn into a 107-yard touchdown.
First, Thomas says he thought he was on the one-yard line. Which, even though that yellow line in the middle of the end zone is confusing, yikes. Second, he is almost tackled inside the two-yard line three times and somehow jukes away. Third, missed tackles galore and, finally, (as always) there is an awesome block that frees him up at the 25-yard line.
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Israeli forces raided the Silwan Preparatory School and arrested schoolboy Jibril Awar, 14, in his classroom Saturday morning.
As in previous arrests in the school, Israeli forces drove to the back of the school and entered through a hole in the fence by the playground. They arrested Jibril Awar in his classroom. Today's arrest of Jibril Awar is the third in two weeks.
Ayed Abu Eqtaish, the accountability program director for Defence For Children International - Palestine (DCI), told the Palestine Monitor that Israeli forces are trying to be more strict with Palestinian children. "Palestinian children in East Jerusalem are targeted," he said, "and we believe this is discriminatory, despite the area being under Israel's civil system."
For children in conflict with Israeli law, the Youth Law provides safeguards for children including the use of arrest as a last resort, advance notice before questioning, minimal use of restraints, and the presence of a legal guardian during questioning.
Ayed Abu Eqtaish told Palestine Monitor that arrested children are routinely denied having a family member present during interrogation, that children are arrested in night raids, and they are interrogated to extract confessions.
"[Israeli forces] are trying to make it like the military legal system in the West Bank, and they have recently been imposing administrative detention orders on kids from East Jerusalem." he said. This means that minors have been imprisoned for prolonged periods without charge or trial, and their detentions can be renewed indefinitely.
Examples of this include the cases of Fadi Hasan Abassi, 17, and Mohammad Saleh Ghaith, 17, from Silwan, who in October received six month and three month detentions respectively, accused of throwing stones at Israeli police vehicles, which they both denied.
According to DCI, the youths were not properly informed of their right to remain silent, and were not with a lawyer or their guardians during their respective interrogations. These are the first cases of administrative detentions of minors in East Jerusalem in 15 years, according to DCI's documentation dating back to 2000.
According to The Palestinian Prisoners' Society, out of a total of 400 minors currently being held in Israeli jails, eleven minors are under administrative detention in Israel. In addition, around 700 children have been detained since the beginning of October, many of whom were released under specific conditions including bail or house arrest, the society said.
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A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones is presented in a spectacular collector's edition - the first release in the Folio Society series of George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'.
A Game of Thrones
'The Folio Society's splendid new editions … are masterpieces of the bookmaker's art lavishly illustrated by Jonathan Burton. Book collectors and fantasy fans alike are going to delight in these volumes … I know I will.'
- George R. R. Martin
A publishing phenomenon; the biggest TV series in the world; a book that revolutionised a genre. A Game of Thrones is also, above and beyond all these things, a uniquely addictive piece of literature, claiming legions of fans and winning vast critical acclaim, and now The Folio Society presents the ultimate illustrated collector's edition.
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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a new law that makes Illinois the first state in the nation to require insurance companies to cover the cost of epinephrine injectors for children. EpiPens deliver a lifesaving dose of epinephrine to individuals who are experiencing a severe allergic reaction. The epinephrine opens the airways and reverses the symptoms of a potentially fatal reaction.
The cost of the lifesaving medication has skyrocketed since 2009. According to CNN, the cost for a pair of EpiPens was $100 that year, but by 2016 the price had jumped to $600. The drastic rise in price made the drug unaffordable for many families across the country.
"With steady increases in food allergies and other serious allergic conditions, families are relying on EpiPens more than ever before," Illinois State Senator Julie Morrison, who sponsored the bill, said in a statement. "We should be doing everything we can to expand access to affordable lifesaving drugs and medicines. No child with a serious allergy should be without an epinephrine injector because they cannot afford one."
The FDA recently approved a generic form of the drug, but when it hit the market, it was listed at the same price as the name-brand medication made by Mylan.
After signing the bill, Pritzker tweeted that the "legislation takes a big step forward in protecting our children and families."
"I was proud to sign two new laws expanding insurance coverage for children whose allergies require live-saving EpiPens and Illinoisans suffering from Lyme disease. This legislation takes a big step forward in protecting our children and families."
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Enter the Danny Jones Student Essay Competition by October 12!
The Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library welcome submissions for the 2015 essay competition in memory of Danny Jones, MLS, who served as Head of Special Collections at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Library and who was also a Past President of the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library.
The contest is open to current students in any of the schools of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, as well as affiliated interns, residents, and fellows. Unpublished essays in broad areas related to the history of the health sciences, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health, or any other health science subject or profession, are eligible for submission. Previous essays not selected are also eligible for resubmission.
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October 15, 2014 - October 17, 2014
A series of afternoon talks as part of the ICA's Frieze-week program at The Old Selfridge's Hotel in London. Featuring Kari Altmann, Alex Bacon, Hannah Black, Michael Connor, Constant Dullaart, Renzo Martens, Monira Al Qadiri (GCC), Takeshi Shiomitsu, Martine Syms, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, and Amalia Ulman.
With the screen arguably now the primary site of encounter for contemporary art, this talks series, taking place as part of ICA Off-Site: The Old Selfridges Hotel, examines the ways in which internet circulation has affected art practice and art's function.
Do You Follow? Art in Circulation begins with the premise that images do not merely depict their surrounding reality, but actively produce and shape it in economic, social, and physical ways. With the advent of the internet, the image's power to effect such transformation has greatly expanded. As a result, image production is by default a posthuman process, subject to the demands of global flows. Images circulating on a network may produce far-flung realities, in unpredictable ways. Some even claim that the world is becoming an image.